Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of passport applications submitted in each month since June 2010; and how many such applications were processed within three weeks of receipt.
The table below gives the requested information.
Month
| Number of straightforward applications | Number processed within 3 weeks |
Jan-13 | 315,467 | 315,424 |
Feb-13 | 368,035 | 368,003 |
Mar-13 | 343,103 | 343,097 |
Apr-13 | 384,487 | 384,477 |
May-13 | 420,209 | 420,204 |
Jun-13 | 421,757 | 421,755 |
Jul-13 | 388,781 | 388,770 |
Aug-13 | 285,055 | 285,050 |
Sep-13 | 231,979 | 231,971 |
Oct-13 | 207,083 | 207,079 |
Nov-13 | 179,323 | 179,312 |
Dec-13 | 115,461 | 115,448 |
Jan-14 | 274,120 | 274,097 |
Feb-14 | 360,087 | 359,997 |
Mar-14 | 406,736 | 406,517 |
Apr-14 | 416,591 | 414,882 |
May-14 | 376,403 | 347,256 |